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Ships Passing in the Night

In the North Sea, much of the ship traffic is concentrated around oil rigs in the center of the sea.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published March 27, 2021
Data acquired March 2, 2021

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Collection:
Earth at Night